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  • ENG 452: Literary Feminisms

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Women's literature in English as a distinct tradition, from the perspective of feminist literary theory and criticism. Structured as a historical and thematic survey of issues in the field; this course will vary in the writers and theorists studied. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 453: Slave Narrative to Slave Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Traditional Black Atlantic eighteenth-and nineteenthcentury slave narratives and examples from the twentiethcentury "slave novel" or "neo-slave narrative," taking into consideration the generic issues raised by the slave novel's reinvention of the traditional slave narrative. Texts engage questions in critique of historiographies, ideologies, and models of interpretation; the relation between memory, writing, and historical representation; and the reproduction of hierarchical categories in the construction of racial, sexual, and gender differences. Texts include Douglass, Equiano, Prince, Jacobs, Bradley, Morrison, G. Jones, E. Jones, and Caryl Phillips. May satisfy the general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 454: Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Reading across Caribbean literatures, cultures, languages, and theories which organize the region, exploring the ways in which cosmopolitanisms shape the literary and cultural productions of the Caribbean. Attention paid to the ways cultural hybridity emerges against the persistence of a mythological,l cultural, and national homogeneity. Texts may include Shakespeare's The Tempest, Bronte' s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, V.S. Naipaul' s Mimic Men, Alejo Carpentier's A Kingdom of This World, C.L.R. James's Minty Alley, Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones, Derek Walcott's The Star-Apple Kingdom, and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 455: Interpretive Issues in Early Modern Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Early modern British literature in relation to modern theoretical or interpretive concerns. Using literary texts (broadly defined), focus will be on exploring the application of the term "Renaissance" in English literary and culturalhistory. Topics include the early modern period as a crux in the histories of science, individualism, gender and sexuality, privacy, literary criticism, and authorship and/or the place of period texts in emerging theories of literature and history. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 456: Comparative Ethnicities

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Emphasis on a comparative approach to Asian American, Jewish American, Native American, African American, Caribbean, US-Latino, and Chicano literatures. Focus will be on how writers of color address histories of ambivalent citizenship; how the immigrant experience and the return home changes both America and the world; the problematic concept of America itself, always seemingly at battle with itself. Some of the rhetorical battles waged over the meaning of an American national and hemispheric identity in the works of Gish Jen, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, Philip Roth, and Edwidge Danticat, among others. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 457: African American Drama

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The history and development of African American drama in the United States from its origins to the present moment. Exploration of the roots of African American drama, the black theater of the Harlem Renaissance, the Little Theater Movement, and the Harlem Unit of the Federal Theater Project. A study of recent major plays from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In the Sun to Suzan Lori-Park' s Topdog-Underdog. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 461: Critical and Cultural Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to theoretical approaches to literature, such as psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism, and postcolonial studies. Consideration of the ethics and politics of interpretation, the assumptions and practices informing theoretical work, and the relation between literature and theory. Readings include works of fiction, film, and texts by theorists such as Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Zizek, Derrida, de Man, Butler, Cixous, Spivak, Bhabha. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 462: The Stage,Social Struggle,and Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of the way the theatre and drama become sites for producing social discourses and institutions. Focusing on one or more key periods in world drama, students will study the interrelations of plays, theoretical formulations, and specific material conditions of performance. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 471: South Asian Cultural Studies:Literature and Film

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the complex array of issues essential to understanding South Asian cultures in the contemporary context. Examining literary texts and films through interpretive approaches appropriate to the pluralistic cultural traditions of the region and informed by current debates in the humanities. Satisfies the pre-fall 2008 Asian African requirement and may satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upperlevel humanities. 4 credits.
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  • ENG 473: Gender in South Asian Literature and Film

    3.00 Credits
    Furman University

    GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the various debates over the representations of masculinity and femininity as these categories intersect with other forms of identity and belonging, such as caste/class, nation, race, and sexuality through the reading of literary and filmic texts. 4 credits.
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